Sociology Chapter 6 Social Interaction

Diff Questions

1 Process by which people act and react in relation to others Social Interaction

2 Surrounding area over which a person make some claim to privacy Personal Space

3 Communication using body movements, gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech Nonverbal communication

4 Social position that a person holds Status

5 Erving Goffman’s term for a person’s efforts to create specific impression in the minds of others Presentation of self

6 All the statuses a person holds at a given time Status Set

7 Social position a person receives at birth or takes on involuntarily in life Ascribed Status

8 Social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort Achieved Status

9 Erving Goffman’s term for the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance Dramaturgical Analysis

10 Harold Garfinkel’s term for the study of the way people make sense of their everyday surroundings Ethnomethodology

11 Status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person’s entire life Master Status

12 Behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status Role

13 W.I. Thomas’s statement that situations that are defined as real are real in their consequences Thomas Theorem

14 Process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction Social Construction of Reality

15 Number of roles attached to a single status Role Set

16 Conflict among the roles connected to tow or more statuses Role conflict

17 Tension among the roles connected to a single status Role Strain

18 Fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system Cultural Lag

19 Close relationships among various elements of a cultural system Cultural Integration

20 Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted w/in a society Counterculture

21 Emphasizing and promoting African Culture patterns Afro-centrism

22 Dominance of European cultural patterns Euro-Centrism

23 Educational program recognizing the cultural diversity of the U.S. and promoting the equality of all cultural traditions Multiculturalism

24 Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population Subculture

25 Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society’s population Popular Culture

26 Cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite High Culture

27 Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings Technology

28 Attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behavior Social Control